Australian Breaker Raygun Calls Olympic Criticism ‘Alarming’

Australian breaker Rachel “Raygun” Gunn, who quickly became one of the most talked about Olympians at the Paris Games following her performance, said much of the heavy criticism of her skills was due to a lack of knowledge of the sport.

“The energy and vitriol that people had was pretty alarming,” Gunn told “The Project,” a show on Australia’s Channel 10 in her first interview since the Olympics.”It was really sad how much hate that it did evoke and a lot of the responses, though, was also due to people not being very familiar with breaking and the diversity of approaches in breaking.”

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Gunn, 37, failed to win any of her

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